Hi Simone, In your "activate" and "block" actions can't you just use the common "update" action, just passing the necessary parameters?
It would be as simple as receiving an "user[ativated] = false" from the request and you could probably reuse the already implemented "update" action in your controller. I've killed many unecessary named routes by using the already implemented actions and parameters. - Maurício Linhares http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/ (en) On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Simone Guerra <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently started using rest for building some new rails apps. I find > it great and clean, but when I started a big project some days ago some > doubts come to my mind. > > First of all, after implementing the user management and authentication > system (which in my case is quite complex) I noticed my routes.rb file > was already fairly big. It seemed to be reasonable to me since I have to > perform lot of operations on the users of my app, especially form the > admin namespace, but the fact that I just started the project and I > already have this huge routing files scares me. > > Moreover, I'm used to have a lot of helper actions to handle calls to > link_to_remote (used for example to dynamically change form fields based > on user input). Some of these calls can be handled by the classic REST > actions with respond_to, but for others it just makes sense to have a > custom action, and this forces me to insert a custom route every time in > my routes.rb file. > The same applies to small actions like "activate" or "block" for users. > I know that in the REST way of doing things this could be done by > creating separate controllers, but this seems stupid to me (especially > in my case, I'll be force to create one such controller for each user > type, with subsequent route definition). > > I hope someone can help me clarify those doubts. > > Thank you in advance (and sorry for the english, it's not my native > language) > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
